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| quote  = The salt is not the leaf. The leaf chewed for an afternoon's work is not the powder snorted for an evening's edge; the powder is not the freebase; the freebase is not the leaf. Each extraction is a contract negotiated with a different version of the same plant — and the further from her, the more punishing the terms.
| quote  = Buying cocaine is buying the desire itself, the desire itself is the product. A devilish perfection. ... The desire, the consumerism, is too blatant, too obvious: a parody of the holy rite, and hence condemned with all the fury of the Inquisition.<br><br>A citizen set fire to a house because it was a "crackhouse." Though he admitted setting the fire, the jury found him not guilty, using jury annulment: an auto-da-f&eacute; for the Holy Cause is not crime.
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| page  = 178
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Stimulant, Local anesthetic
Cocaine

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Summary
Classes
Stimulant, Local anesthetic
Pharmacy
Pharmacology
Purported mechanism
Monoamine reuptake inhibitor; sodium channel blocker


Pendell's corner
Buying cocaine is buying the desire itself, the desire itself is the product. A devilish perfection. ... The desire, the consumerism, is too blatant, too obvious: a parody of the holy rite, and hence condemned with all the fury of the Inquisition.

A citizen set fire to a house because it was a "crackhouse." Though he admitted setting the fire, the jury found him not guilty, using jury annulment: an auto-da-fé for the Holy Cause is not crime.
— Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Dynamis, p. 178